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The Second Chance Club: Hardship and Hope After Prison

Jason Hardy - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A former parole officer shines a bright light on a huge yet hidden part of our justice system through the intertwining stories of seven parolees striving to survive the chaos that awaits them after prison in this illuminating and dramatic book. Prompted by a dead-end retail job and a vague...
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Elephant Don: The Politics of a Pachyderm Posse

Caitlin O'Connell - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

Meet Greg. Hes a stocky guy with an outsized swagger. Hes been the intimidating yet sociable don of his posse of friendsincluding Abe, Keith, Mike, Kevin, Torn Trunk, and Willie. But one arid summer the tide begins to shift and the third-ranking Kevin starts to get ambitious, seeking a higher...
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The Way Home: Tales from a Life Without Technology

Mark Boyle - Oneworld Publications
Format: Hardcover

It was 11pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped would be forever. No running water, no car, no electricity or any of the things it powers: the internet, phone, washing machine, radio or light bulb. Just a wooden cabin, on a smallholding, by the edge...
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It's Not Rocket Science: Discover the Surprisingly Simple Ideas Behind the Most Exciting Bits of Science

Ben Miller - Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback

An engaging, accessible, and fascinating look at sciences best bits by a comedian and particle physicist Black holes, DNA, the Large Hadron Collider ever had that sneaking feeling that you are missing out on some truly spectacular science You do Well fear not, for help is at hand. Ben Miller...
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Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants

Jane Goodall - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Renowned naturalist and bestselling author Jane Goodall examines the critical role that trees and plants play in our world. In her wise and elegant new book, Jane Goodall blends her experience in nature with her enthusiasm for botany to give readers a deeper understanding of the world around...
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Between Hope and Fear: A History of Vaccines and Human Immunity

MICHAEL KINCH - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A smart and compelling examination of the science of immunity, the public policy implications of vaccine denial, and the real-world outcomes of failing to vaccinate. If you have a child in school, you may have heard stories of long-dormant diseases suddenly reappearing -- cases of measles,...
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Nano Comes to Life: How Nanotechnology Is Transforming Medicine and the Future of Biology

Sonia Contera - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

The nanotechnology revolution that will transform human health and longevity. Nano Comes to Life opens a window onto the nanoscale - the infinitesimal realm of proteins and DNA where physics and cellular and molecular biology meet - and introduces readers to the rapidly evolving nanotechnologies...
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Idiot's Guides: Quantum Physics

Nora Berrah - Alpha
Format: Print book

Quantum physics explores the behavior of matter and energy at the molecular, atomic, nuclear, and even smaller levels. Idiots Guides Quantum Physics explores this very complex topic, while making it easy-to-understand for science enthusiasts and students alike. It skips the complicated...
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The Unknown Universe A New Exploration of Time, Space, and Modern Cosmology.

Clark Stuart.
Format:  Print book : English

A groundbreaking guide to the universe and how our latest deep-space discoveries are forcing us to revisit what we know -- and what we don't. On March 21, 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the Big Bang. Taking in 440 sextillion kilometres of space and 13.8...
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Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure

Cédric Villani - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

In 2010, French mathematician Cdric Villani received the Fields Medal, the most coveted prize in mathematics, in recognition of a proof which he devised with his close collaborator Clment Mouhot to explain one of the most surprising theories in classical physics. Birth of a Theorem is Villani's...
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When Einstein Walked with Gdel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought

Jim Holt - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries in When Einstein Walked with Godel: Excursions to the Edge...
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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

Max Tegmark - Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Format: Paperback

Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate...
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Gravity's Century: From Einstein's Eclipse to Images of Black Holes

Ron Cowen - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein's general theory of relativity, bringing to life the science and scientists at the origins of relativity, the development of radio telescopes, the discovery of black holes and quasars, and the still unresolved...
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The Homing Instinct: Meaning & Mystery in Animal Migration

Bernd Heinrich - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

"A noted naturalist explores the centrality of home in the lives of humans and other animals . . . A special treat for readers of natural history" (Kirkus Reviews) . Every year, many species make the journey from one place to another, following the same paths and ending up in the same...
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Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever

Bill Gifford - Grand Central Publishing; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

From acclaimed journalist Bill Gifford comes a roaring journey into the world of anti-aging science in search of answers to a universal obsession: what can be done about getting old?SPRING CHICKEN:Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying)SPRING CHICKEN is a full-throttle, high-energy ride through...
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The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch

Lewis Dartnell - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover

How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch?If our technological society collapsed tomorrow, perhaps from a viral pandemic or catastrophic asteroid impact, what would be the one book you would want to press into the hands of the postapocalyptic survivors? What...
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When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

DANIEL H PINK - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

Instant New York Times Bestseller#1 Wall Street Journal Business BestsellerInstant Washington Post Bestseller"Brims with a surprising amount of insight and practical advice." --The Wall Street JournalDaniel H. Pink, the #1 bestselling author of Drive...
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake

Steven Novella - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

An all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking in the popular The Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast's dryly humorous, accessible style, which Professor Richard Wiseman calls the "the perfect primer for anyone who wants to separate fact from fiction."It's intimidating...
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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

Peter Godfrey-Smith - Farrar
Format: Print book

A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousnessAlthough mammals and birds are widely regarded to be the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods,...
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The Mercy of the Sky: The Story of a Tornado

Hollace S Bailey - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover

"A gripping, heartbreaking and heartwarming account of the monster tornado that ravaged Moore, Oklahoma in 2013. It will leave you emotionally drained but glad you journeyed into the heart of this extraordinary storm with Bailey as your guide." --Daniel James Brown, #1 NY Times...
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Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf: How the elements were named

Peter Wothers - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

The iconic Periodic Table of the Elements is now in its most satisfyingly elegant form. This is because all the 'gaps' corresponding to missing elements in the seventh row, or period, have recently been filled and the elements named. But where do these names come from? For some,...
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Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood

Rose George - Metropolitan Books
Format: Book

Blood carries life, yet the sight of it makes people faint. It is a waste product and a commodity pricier than oil. It can save lives and transmit deadly infections. Each one of us has roughly nine pints of it, yet many don't even know their own blood type. And for all its ubiquitousness,...
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The Asteroid Threat: Defending Our Planet from Deadly Near-Earth Objects

William E. Burrows - Prometheus Books
Format: Paperback

Presents a realistic, workable plan for defusing a potentially lethal threat from a rogue asteroid or comet. The explosion of a large meteor over Chelyabinsk, Siberia, in February 2013 is just the latest reminder that planet Earth is vulnerable to damaging and potentially catastrophic...
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All These Worlds Are Yours: The Scientific Search for Alien Life

Jon Willis - Yale University Press
Format: Print book

Where would you look for alien life? An astronomer and science popularizer explains the basics of astrobiology to outline five plausible scenarios for finding extraterrestrials Long before space travel was possible, the idea of life beyond Earth transfixed humans. In this fascinating book,...
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Fisherman's Bible: The World's Most Comprehensive Angling Reference

Jay Cassell - Skyhorse Publishing; Second Edition edition
Format: Paperback

In the tradition of the bestselling Shooter's Bible, Skyhorse Publishing presents the Fisherman's Bible, the most complete reference guide for new fishing equipment and its specifications. Anglers will only need one book - now in its second year - to discover all the new gear on the market...
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This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society

Kathleen Mcauliffe - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

A riveting investigation of the myriad ways that parasites control how other creatures including humans think, feel, and act. These tiny organisms can only live inside another animal, and as McAuliffe reveals, they have many evolutionary motives for manipulating their host s behavior. Far more...
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Infographic Guide to Life, the Universe and Everything

Thames Eaton - Cassell
Format: Hardcover

100 stunning, ingenious and absorbing infographics reveal the secrets of life, the universe and everything! Discover unique, witty and surprising facts about all sorts of natural phenomena, from the secrets of the universe to the wonders of natural science and the impenetrable dimensions...
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Idealization and the Aims of Science

Angela Potochnik - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

Science is the study of our world, as it is in its messy reality. Nonetheless, science requires idealization to function--if we are to attempt to understand the world, we have to find ways to reduce its complexity. Idealization and the Aims of Science shows just how crucial idealization...
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The Secret History of Kindness: Learning from How Dogs Learn

Melissa Holbrook Pierson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

An intimate, surprising look at man's best friend and what the leading philosophies of dog training teach us about ourselves.Years back, Melissa Holbrook Pierson brought home a border collie named Mercy, without a clue of how to get her to behave. Stunned after hiring a trainer whose...
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The Healing Self: A Revolutionary Plan for Wholeness in Mind, Body, and Spirit

Deepak Chopra - Harmony
Format: Hardcover

After collaborating on two major books featured as PBS specials, Super Brain and Super Genes, Chopra and Tanzi now tackle the issue of lifelong health and heightened immunity.In the face of environmental toxins, potential epidemics, super bugs, and the aging process The...
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Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Kathryn Harkup - Bloomsbury SIGMA
Format: Hardcover

The year 1818 saw the publication of one of the most influential science-fiction stories of all time. Frankenstein: Or, Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley had a huge impact on gothic horror and science fiction genres. The name Frankenstein has become part of our everyday language, often...
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The Rooftop Beekeeper: A Scrappy Guide to Keeping Urban Honeybees

Megan Paska - Chronicle Books
Format: Paperback

The number of urban beekeepers has escalated with more than 25 percent increases year over year in the United States and the United Kingdom. From a go-to authority on beekeeping and backyard farming, The Rooftop Beekeeper is the first handbook to explore the ease and charm of keeping bees...
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The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves

Eric R Kandel - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Nobel Prize recipient Eric R. Kandel investigates The Disordered Mind to uncover what brain disorders reveal about human nature. This challenging study will not only help transform medical care but also encourage a new humanism based in part on the biological confirmation of individuality.Eric...
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Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel

Michael Wall - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

We've all asked ourselves the question. It's impossible to look up at the stars and NOT think about it: Are we alone in the universe? Books, movies and television shows proliferate that attempt to answer this question and explore it. In OUT THERE Space.com senior writer Dr. Michael Wall...
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The Human Superorganism: How the Microbiome Is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy Life

Rodney R Dietert - Dutton
Format: Print book

The origin of asthma, autism, Alzheimer's, allergies, cancer, heart disease, obesity, and even some kinds of depression is now clear. Award-winning researcher on the microbiome, professor Rodney Dietert presents a new paradigm in human biology that has emerged in the midst of the ongoing...
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Silent Witnesses: The Often Gruesome but Always Fascinating History of Forensic Science

Nigel McCrery - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback

Crime novelist and former police officer Nigel McCrery provides an account of all the major areas of forensic science from around the world over the past two centuries. The book weaves dramatic narrative and scientific principles together in a way that allows readers to figure out crimes...
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and more than a million copies sold. The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better...
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The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Interpreted Through Modern Science

Steve Jones - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

From acclaimed geneticist Steve Jones, the story of the Bible as told through the lens of modern science. In The Serpent's Promise, Steve Jones retells many of the Biblical tales in the light of modern science. Are we all descended from a real-life Adam and Eve? Are some—or all—of...
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Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by their Trace Fossils

Anthony J. Martin - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

CSI meets Jurassic Park in a fascinating, revelatory look at dinosaurs and their world through the million-year-old clues they left behind What if we woke up one morning all of the dinosaur bones in the world were gone? How would we know these iconic animals had a165-million year history...
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Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes

Emily Urquhart - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The story begins on St. Stephen's Day, 2010, in St. John's, Newfoundland, when the author gives birth to a baby girl named Sadie Jane who has a shock of snow-white hair. News of the child's icy locks travels across the hospital, and physicians and nurses from all wards visit...
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

HANS ROSLING - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends -- what percentage of the world's population live in poverty; why the world's population is increasing; how many girls finish...
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Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor

Brian Keating - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book

What would it have been like to be an eyewitness to the Big Bang? In 2014, astronomers wielding BICEP2, the most powerful cosmology telescope ever made, revealed that they'd glimpsed the spark that ignited the Big Bang. Millions around the world tuned in to the announcement broadcast...
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Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing

James Owen Weatherall - Yale University Press
Format: Print book

The rising star author of The Physics of Wall Street explores why "nothing" may hold the key to the next era of theoretical physics James Owen Weatherall's previous book, The Physics of Wall Street, was a New York Times best-seller and named one of Physics Today's five...
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The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning

Marcelo Gleiser - Basic Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth? To be human is to want to know, but what we are able to observe is only a tiny portion of whats out there. In The Island of Knowledge, physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search...
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Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity

Carlo Rovelli - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"The man who makes physics sexy . . . the scientist they're calling the next Stephen Hawking." - The Times MagazineFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a closer look at the mind-bending nature of the universe.What...
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The Math of Life and Death: 7 Mathematical Principles That Shape Our Lives

Kit Yates - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant and entertaining mathematician illuminates seven mathematical principles that shape our lives. "Kit Yates shows how our private and social lives are suffused by mathematics. Ignorance may bring tragedy or farce. This is an exquisitely interesting book. It's a deeply...
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Keeping Chickens In Your Garden: A Practical Guide To Raising Chickens, Ducks, Geese And Turkeys In Your Backyard, With Over 400 Photographs

Fred Hams - Southwater
Format: Print book

An expert manual on keeping poultry in the garden: rearing, housing, breeding and maintaining health, including how to build your own poultry house.
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Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder: A Journey into the Wild World of Nuclear Science

James A Mahaffey - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

The latest investigation from acclaimed nuclear engineer and author James Mahaffey unearths forgotten nuclear endeavors throughout history that were sometimes hair-brained, often risky, and always fascinating. Whether you are a scientist or a poet, pro-nuclear energy or staunch opponent,...
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Fake Science: Exposing the Left's Skewed Statistics, Fuzzy Facts, and Dodgy Data

Austin Ruse - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover

If you listen to any political argument, you're eventually bound to hear something like: "The science is settled on this." Or: "Just look at the statistics!" Or: "There have been studies that say..." You'd think we were living in the golden age of science...
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How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens

Benedict Carey - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

In the tradition of The Power of Habit and Thinking, Fast and Slow comes a practical, playful, and endlessly fascinating guide to what we really know about learning and memory today - and how we can apply it to our own lives. From an early age, it is drilled into our heads: Restlessness,...
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Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change

Mary Beth Pfeiffer - Island Press
Format: Hardcover

Lyme disease is spreading rapidly around the globe as ticks move into places they could not survive before. The first epidemic to emerge in the era of climate change, the disease infects half a million people in the US and Europe each year, and untold multitudes in Canada, China, Russia,...
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Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us

SAM KEAN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The fascinating science and history of the air we breatheIt's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell.In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic...
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The Golden Ratio: The Divine Beauty of Mathematics

Gary B. Meisner - Race Point Publishing
Format: Hardcover

The Golden Ratio examines the presence of this divine number in art and architecture throughout history, as well as its ubiquity among plants, animals, and even the cosmos. This gorgeous book - with layflat dimensions that closely approximate the golden ratio - features clear, enlightening,...
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The Enlightened Mr. Parkinson: The Pioneering Life of a Forgotten Surgeon

Cherry Lewis - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A colorful and absorbing portrait of James Parkinson and the turbulent, intellectually vibrant world of Georgian London. Parkinson's disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 60,000 new cases each year in the United States alone, yet few know anything about the man the disease...
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How Dogs Work

Raymond Coppinger - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

How well do we really know dogs? People may enjoy thinking about them as "man's best friend," but what actually drives the things they do? What is going on in their fur-covered heads as they look at us with their big, expressive eyes? Raymond Coppinger and Mark Feinstein...
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The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery

Barbara K Lipska - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

As a deadly cancer spread inside her brain, leading neuroscientist Barbara Lipska was plunged into madness - only to miraculously survive with her memories intact. In the tradition of My Stroke of Insight and Brain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts her ordeal and explains...
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A Taste for the Beautiful: The Evolution of Attraction

Michael J. Ryan - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

From one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior, the astonishing story of how the female brain drives the evolution of beauty in animals and humansDarwin developed the theory of sexual selection to explain why the animal world abounds in stunning beauty, from the brilliant...
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An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life

Mark Gober - Waterside Press
Format: Hardcover

Consciousness creates all material reality. Biological processes do not create consciousness. This conceptual breakthrough turns traditional scientific thinking upside down. In An End to Upside Down Thinking, Mark Gober traces his journey - he explores compelling scientific evidence from...
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Physics and music : the science of musical sound

Harvey Elliott White; Donald H White - Dover Publications
Format:  Book : EnglishView all editions and formats

This foundational text is written for students who want to go beyond the perceptual stage of music to learn how musical sound is created and perceived. It surveys a wide range of topics related to acoustics, beginning with a brief history of the art and science of music. Succeeding chapters...
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Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome

Nessa Carey - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover

For decades after the identification of the structure of DNA, scientists focused only on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes for the production of proteins. Other regions that make up 98 percent of the human genome were dismissed as "junk," sequences that serve...
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The Science of Sleep: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters

Wallace B Mendelson - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

We often hear that humans spend one third of their lives sleeping - and most of us would up that fraction if we could. Whether we're curling up for a brief lunchtime catnap, catching a doze on a sunny afternoon, or clocking our solid eight hours at night, sleeping is normally a reliable...
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Nothing in This Book Is True, But It's Exactly How Things Are, 25th Anniversary Edition

Bob Frissell - North Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback

The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this underground classic explores higher consciousness, human evolution, metaphysics, sacred geometry, the secret government, and more * Gives clear instructions on MerKaBa (Light Body) activation and the companion...
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Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life's Toughest Questions

Kari Byron - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

Kari Byron - former host of the wildly popular, iconic cult classic MythBusters - shows how to crash test your way through life, no lab coat required. Kari Byron's story hasn't been a straight line. She started out as a broke artist living in San Francisco, writing poems on a crowded...
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The Greatest Story Ever Told--So Far: Why Are We Here?

Lawrence M Krauss - Atria Books
Format: Print book

Internationally renowned, award-winning theoretical physicist, New York Times bestselling author of A Universe from Nothing, and passionate advocate for reason, Lawrence Krauss tells the dramatic story of the discovery of the hidden world of reality - a grand poetic vision...
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Rocks, Gems, and Minerals of the Southwest

Garret Romaine - Falcon Guides
Format: Paperback

Rocks, Gems, and Minerals of the Southwest is a field guide to more than 100 of the most common and sought-after rocks, gems, and minerals hidden throughout the Southwest. Conveniently sized to fit in your pocket and featuring full-color, detailed photographs, this informative guide...
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Your Water Footprint: The Shocking Facts About How Much Water We Use to Make Everyday Products

Stephen Leahy - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback

The average American lifestyle is kept afloat by about 2,000 gallons of H2O a day. The numbers are shocking. Your Water Footprint reveals the true cost of our lifestyle. A water footprint is the amount of fresh water used to produce the goods and services we consume, including growing,...
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Cultivating Civility: Practical Ways to Improve a Dysfunctional Library

Jo Henry - ALA Editions
Format: Paperback

Like other workplaces, libraries can sometimes be stressful, with library workers bearing the brunt of such problems as uncivil patrons, poor communication, inadequate leadership, and toxic behaviors by fellow employees. But there's hope. Following up their acclaimed examination of the dysfunctional...
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Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution

Jonathan B Losos - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

A major new work overturning our assumptions about how evolution works Earth's natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point...
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Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists

Lawrence Weschler - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book

From Pulitzer Prize nominee Lawrence Weschler, a fascinating profile of Walter Murch, a film legend and amateur astrophysicist whose investigations could reshape our understanding of the universe.For film aficionados, Walter Murch is legendary--a three-time Academy Award winner, arguably...
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The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything

MARCUS CHOWN - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

Why the force that keeps our feet on the ground holds the key to understanding the nature of time and the origin of the universe. Gravity is the weakest force in the everyday world yet it is the strongest force in the universe. It was the first force to be recognized and described yet it is the least...
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Last Chance Mustang: The Story of One Horse, One Horseman, and One Final Shot at Redemption

Mitchell Bornstein - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

Last Chance Mustang is the story of Samson, a formerly free-roaming, still wild-at-heart American mustang that was plucked from his mountainous Nevada home and thrown into the domestic horse world where he was brutalized and victimized. After years of abuse, Samson had evolved into...
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Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange

Jon Butterworth - The Experiment
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry: a richly conjured world, in map and metaphor, of particle physicsAtom Land brings the impossibly small world of particle physics to life, taking readers on a guided journey through the subatomic...
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Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To

Dean Burnett - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

A delightful tour of our mysterious, mischievous gray matter from neuroscientist and massively popular Guardian blogger Dean Burnett.The brain may be the seat of consciousness and the engine of all human experience, but it's also messy, fallible, and disorganized. For example, did you know...
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VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave

Nina Blackwood - Atria Books
Format: Paperback

In this "highly entertaining snapshot of a wild-frontier moment in pop culture" (Rolling Stone) , discover the wild and explosive true story of the early years of MTV directly from the original VJs. Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, and Martha Quinn (along with the late...
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The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change

Iain McCalman - Scientific Amer Books
Format: Print book

Stretching 1,400 miles along the Australian coast and visible from space, the Great Barrier Reef is home to three thousand individual reefs, more than nine hundred islands, and thousands of marine species, and has alternately been viewed as a deadly maze, an economic bounty, a scientific...
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The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack: and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution

Ian Tattersall - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

In his new book The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack, human paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall argues that a long tradition of "human exceptionalism" in paleoanthropology has distorted the picture of human evolution. Drawing partly on his own career -- from young scientist...
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How the Body Works

Dorling Kindersley Inc. - DK
Format: Hardcover

A bold, accessible, illustrated guide that delivers real scientific information on how the body works with a healthy side of fun facts and trivia.If you've ever searched the Internet for information on that odd rash on your arm, advice to help you get the best night's sleep, or tips for staying...
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Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body

DANIEL GOLEMAN - Avery
Format: Hardcover

Two New York Times-bestselling authors unveil new research showing what meditation can really do for the brain. In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your...
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The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age

Gino Segrè - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book

Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope by his peers, he was regarded as infallible in his instincts and research. His discoveries changed our world; they led to weapons of mass destruction...
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Fluke: The Math and Myth of Coincidence

Joseph Mazur - Basic Books
Format: Print book

What are the chances? This is the question we ask ourselves when we encounter the strangest and most seemingly impossible coincidences, like the woman who won the lottery four times or the fact that Lincoln's dreams foreshadowed his own assassination. But, when we look at coincidences mathematically,...
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The Handy Astronomy Answer Book

Charles Liu - Visible Ink Press
Format: Paperback

From planetary movements and the exploration of our solar system to black holes and dark matter, this comprehensive reference simplifies all aspects of astronomy with an approachable question-and-answer format. With chapters broken into various astronomical studies - including the universe,...
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Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives

Mark Miodownik - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Sometimes explosive, often delicious, occasionally poisonous, but always interesting: the New York Times best-selling author of Stuff Matters show us the secret lives of liquids: the shadow counterpart of our solid "stuff."We all know that without water we couldn't...
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Statistics: 1,001 Practice Problems For Dummies

Consumer Dummies - For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Book

1,001 practice opportunities to score higher in statistics 1,001 Statistics Practice Problems For Dummies takes you beyond the instruction and guidance offered in Statistics For Dummies to give you a more hands-on understanding of statistics. The practice problems offered range in difficulty,...
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The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth

Elizabeth Tasker - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover

Twenty years ago, the search for planets--and life--outside the solar system was a job restricted to science fiction writers. It is now one of the most rapidly growing fields in astronomy, with thousands of these "exoplanets" discovered so far. The detection of these worlds...
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The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets

Graham Farmelo - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

How math helps us solve the universe's deepest mysteries One of the great insights of science is that the universe has an underlying order. The supreme goal of physicists is to understand this order through laws that describe the behavior of the most basic particles and the forces between...
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Nature Guide: Snakes and Other Reptiles and Amphibians

DK Publishing - DK ADULT
Format: Book

This is the newest of our beautifully illustrated and highly informative nature guides produced in association with the Smithsonian Institution. Snakes and Other Reptiles and Amphibians is compact and easy-to-use, including stunning photography, and a comprehensive catalog of cold-blooded...
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Zika: The Emerging Epidemic

Donald G. McNeil Jr. - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

A gripping narrative about the origins and spread of the Zika virus by New York Times science reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr.Until recently, Zika -- once considered a mild disease -- was hardly a cause for global panic. But as early as August 2015, doctors in northeast Brazil began to notice...
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Science Is Beautiful: Disease and Medicine: Under the Microscope

Colin Salter - Batsford
Format: Hardcover

Using cutting-edge technology, take a close-up look at the surprising beauty of some of our deadliest diseases - and the medicines that treat them. What do human cells look like when suffering from Alzheimer's, osteoporosis, or HIV? With the help of powerful microscopes and electron...
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Zooburbia: Meditations on the Wild Animals Among Us

Tai Moses - Parallax Press
Format: Paperback

Every animal has a story.In ZOOBURBIA, urban naturalist Tai Moses launches a lively exploration into "the extraordinary, unruly, half-wild realm where human and animal lives overlap." The author's woodsy backyard at the base of the Oakland hills becomes a laboratory for encounters...
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The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla - Fall River; Facsimile edition
Format: Book

During the early twentieth century, the eccentric and brilliant inventor Nikola Tesla blazed the path that electrical development followed for many years to come. This fascinating illustrated record of Tesla's pioneering work gathers many of his most famous findings and theories, allowing...
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Farm Fences and Gates: Build and Repair Fences to Keep Livestock In and Pests Out

Rick Kubik - Voyageur Press; Revised edition
Format: Book

If you raise livestock or crops, you’ll need a fence. Good fences are critical to success. They protect your animals (and plants) and keep them at home, and they can also minimize the damage done by pests and predators. In Farm Fences and Gates, you’ll learn how to build...
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Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars

John Gaudet - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

At the center of the most vital human-plant relationship in history, Papyrus evokes the mysteries of the ancient world while holding the key to the world’s wetlands and atmospheric stability.From ancient Pharaohs to 21st Century water wars, papyrus is a unique plant that is still...
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The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind

Michio Kaku - Anchor; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

Michio Kaku, the New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible and Physics of the Future tackles the most fascinating and complex object in the known universe: the human brain.The Future of the Mind brings a topic that once belonged solely to the province...
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Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum

Leonard Susskind - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

After teaching us classical mechanics and quantum mechanics, physicist Leonard Susskind and data engineer Art Friedman are back. This time, they introduce readers to Einstein's special relativity and Maxwell's classical field theory. Using their typical brand of real math; enlightening...
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Secret Warriors: The Spies, Scientists and Code Breakers of World War I

Taylor Downing - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A startling and vivid account of World War I that uncovers how wartime code-breaking, aeronautics, and scientific research that laid the foundation for much of the innovations of the twentieth century. World War I is often viewed as a war fought by armies of millions living and fighting...
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Super You: How Technology is Revolutionizing What It Means to Be Human

Andy Edward Walker - Que
Format: Book

Hack yourself! Discover how tomorrow's incredible technologies will soon make your body, your brain, and your kids fantastically superhuman. Grow replacement organs. Implant chips in your brain. Edit your DNA. Double your lifespan! You can live longer, better, smarter. The technology...
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The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality

Paul Halpern - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

In 1939, Richard Feynman, a brilliant graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant. A lifelong friendship and enormously productive collaboration was born, despite sharp differences in personality. The soft-spoken Wheeler, though...
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Nations of the World 2014: A Political, Economic & Business Handbook

Grey House Publishing - Grey House Publishing
Format: Paperback

This comprehensive handbook profiles 231 nations and self-governing terr-itories around the world in an easy-to-access, single-volume format. More than 2,000 pages present political, economic and business information not found in any other reference work of its kind.
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Fastest Things on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood

Teresa E Masear - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

A heartwarming account of the trials and triumphs a hummingbird rehabber encounters while caring for her tiny, fragile patients Before he collided with a limousine, Gabriel, an Anna's hummingbird with a head and throat cloaked in iridescent magenta feathers, could spiral 130 feet in the air,...
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Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies

Alastair Bonnett - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover

A tour of the world's hidden geographies - from disappearing islands to forbidden deserts - and a stunning testament to how mysterious the world remains today
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Plastic Purge: How to Use Less Plastic, Eat Better, Keep Toxins Out of Your Body, and Help Save the Sea Turtles!

Michael SanClements - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

Now a Denver Post #1 bestseller. Plastic is everywhere we look. Our computers and children's toys are made out of it, and our water and slices of American cheese are packaged in it. But why is there so much and what is it doing to our bodies? Is it possible to use less plastic and be happier...
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Einstein's Monsters: The Life and Times of Black Holes

Chris Impey - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The astonishing science of black holes, and their role in understanding the history and future of our universe.Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe, yet every galaxy harbors a black hole at its center. In Einstein's Monsters, distinguished astronomer Chris Impey builds...
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The Illustrated Guide to Cows: How To Choose Them - How To Keep Them

Celia Lewis - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardcover

Keeping cattle as a smallholder can be a rewarding enterprise, supplying you with food and milk and helping with the management of grassland on your property. This delightfully illustrated and informative book is ideal for anyone interested in keeping a cow or two, who would like to choose...
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The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them

Donald R Prothero - Columbia University Press
Format: Book

Every rock is a tangible trace of the earth's past. In The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks, Donald R. Prothero tells the fascinating stories behind the discoveries that shook the foundations of geology. In twenty-five chapters -- each about a particular rock, outcrop, or geologic...

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Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable

Paul G Falkowski - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book

For almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemistry of our planet to make it habitable for plants, animals, and us. Life's Engines takes readers deep into the microscopic world to explore...
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Science for Sale: How the US Government Uses Powerful Corporations and Leading Universities to Support Government Policies, Silence Top Scientists, Jeopardize Our Health, and Protect Corporate Profits

David L. Lewis PhD - Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

When Speaker Newt Gingrich greeted Dr. David Lewis in his office overlooking the National Mall, he looked at Dr. Lewis and said: “You know you’re going to be fired for this, don’t you?” “I know,” Dr. Lewis replied, “I just hope to stay out of prison.”...
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity

Carl Zimmer - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning, celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a history of our understanding of heredity in this sweeping, resonating overview of a force that shaped human society--a force set to shape our future even more radically.She Has Her Mother's...
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Virtual Unreality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It’s True?

Charles Seife - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Proofiness and Zero explains how to separate fact from fantasy in the digital worldDigital information is a powerful tool that spreads unbelievably rapidly, infects all corners of society, and is all but impossible to controleven when that information is actually...
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The Next Species: The Future of Evolution in the Aftermath of Man

Michael Tennesen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

While examining the history of our planet and actively exploring our present environment, science journalist Michael Tennesen describes what life on earth could look like after the next mass extinction.A growing number of scientists agree we are headed toward a mass extinction, perhaps...
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What's in Your Genes?: From the Color of Your Eyes to the Length of Your Life, a Revealing Look at Your Genetic Traits

Katie McKissick - Adams,
Format: Paperback

A crash course in genetics!Everyone knows that if you come from a family of brunettes, you're likely to be born with brown hair. But did you know your hair color may also affect how often you get sunburned? Or how often you need to take vitamin supplements?What's in Your Genes?...
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The NeuroGeneration: The New Era in Brain Enhancement That Is Revolutionizing the Way We Think, Work, and Heal

Tan Le
Format: Hardcover


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Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World

Keith Devlin - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book

In 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci, whose book Liber abbaci has quite literally affected the lives of everyone alive today. Although he is most famous for the Fibonacci numbers--which,...
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The Chemistry of Alchemy: From Dragon's Blood to Donkey Dung, How Chemistry Was Forged

Cathy Cobb - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover

A unique approach to the history of science using do-it-yourself experiments along with brief historical profiles to demonstrate how the ancient alchemists stumbled upon the science of chemistry.Be the alchemist! Explore the legend of alchemy with the science of chemistry. Enjoy over twenty...
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American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic

Victoria Johnson - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of Hamilton's -- and Burr's -- personal physician, whose dream to build America's first botanical garden inspired the young Republic. When Dr. David Hosack tilled the country's first botanical garden in the Manhattan soil more than two hundred years ago, he didn't just...
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Storytelling Apes: Primatology Narratives Past and Future

Mary Sanders Pollock - Penn State University Press
Format: Hardcover

The annals of field primatology are filled with stories about charismatic animals native to some of the most challenging and remote areas on earth There are for example the chimpanzees of Tanzania whose social and family interactions Jane Goodall has studied for decades the mountain gorillas...
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Idiot's Guides: Geometry

Sonal Bhatt - ALPHA
Format: Book

Covering everything a student would encounter in a high school or college course, Idiots Guides Geometry explains concepts in the easiest possible manner. Content includes everything from the basics of geometry reasoning and proof triangles quadrilaterals area and volume similarity, perpendicular...
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The Concise Book of Muscles, Third Edition

Chris Jarmey - Lotus Publishing ; Berkeley
Format: Print book

Updated with the latest human anatomy and biomechanics research, the third edition of this authoritative, best-selling book offers a comprehensive introduction to emerging explanations of new models of living motion and human architecture. Detailed, full-color anatomical drawings and clear,...
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How to Make Maple Syrup: From Gathering Sap to Marketing Your Own Syrup. A Storey BASICS® Title

Alison Anderson - Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Paperback

Learn how to make your own maple syrup from start to finish. Third-generation syrup makers Alison and Steven Anderson show you how to collect sap using a tree-friendly tubing system and then cook, bottle, and even market your syrup. Whether you want a few bottles of syrup for your family's...
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The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age

David N Schwartz - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

The definitive biography of the brilliant, charismatic, and very human physicist and innovator Enrico FermiIn 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had before: a nuclear chain reaction. At the forefront of this breakthrough stood Enrico Fermi. Straddling the ages...
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Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World

Richard C Francis - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

Without our domesticated plants and animals, human civilization as we know it would not exist.We would still be living at subsistence level as hunter-gatherers if not for domestication. It is no accident that the cradle of civilization -- the Middle East -- is where sheep, goats, pigs,...
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Spare Parts: In Praise of Your Appendix and Other Unappreciated Organs

Carol Ann Rinzler - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A tribute to the parts that arent so spare after all . . . "A mesmerizing perspective . . . unparalleled information, both arcane and titillating" (Manhattan Book Review) . This book sheds light on human body parts once considered extraneous, but now proven to play an important...
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Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest: A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms

Teresa Marrone - Adventure Publications
Format: Print book

A visual guide to learning about nearly 400 species of mushrooms of the Upper Midwest, between the Dakotas and Indiana.
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Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe

Mario Livio - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Drawing on the lives of five great scientists, this “scholarly, insightful, and beautifully written book” (Martin Rees, author of From Here to Infinity) illuminates the path to scientific discovery.Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert...
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This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know

MR JOHN BROCKMAN - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback

The latest volume in the bestselling series from Edge.org - dubbed "the world's smartest website" by The Guardian - brings together 206 of the world's most innovative thinkers to discuss the scientific concepts that everyone should know.As science informs public policy,...
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Stronghold: One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon

Tucker Malarkey - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover

"A powerful and inspiring story. Guido Rahr's mission to save the wild Pacific salmon leads him into adventures that make for a breathtakingly exciting read." - Ian Frazier, author of Travels in Siberia In the tradition of Mountains Beyond Mountains and The Orchid...
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Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves

James Nestor - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

An Amazon Best Book of 2014 While on assignment in Greece, journalist James Nestor witnessed something that confounded him: a man diving 300 feet below the ocean's surface on a single breath of air and returning four minutes later, unharmed and smiling. This man was a freediver, and his amphibious...
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Time Travel

James Gleick - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book

From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. The story begins at the turn of the previous century,...
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The Dynamics of Disaster

Susan W. Kieffer - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Book

“If you are an amateur weather geek, disaster wonk, or budding student of earth sciences, you will want to read this book.”—Seattle Times In 2011, there were fourteen natural calamities that each destroyed over a billion dollars’ worth of property in the United...
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College Algebra DeMYSTiFieD, 2nd Edition

Rhonda Huettenmueller - McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Format: Paperback

Don't let quadratic equations make you irrational If you are absolutely confused by absolute value equations, or you think parabolas are short moral stories, College Algebra DeMYSTiFied, Second Edition is your solution to mastering the topic's concepts and theories at your own pace....
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The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty

Robert P. Crease - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The fascinating story of how quantum mechanics went mainstream. The discovery of the quantum -- the idea, born in the early 1900s in a remote corner of physics, that energy comes in finite packets instead of infinitely divisible quantities -- planted a rich set of metaphors in the popular...
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The World of Birds

Jonathan Elphick - Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover

The ultimate illustrated, authoritative reference to the avian world. Written by a highly regarded ornithologist and natural history expert and sumptuously illustrated throughout with photographs and illustrations, The World of Birds is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to every...
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The Pleasure Shock: The Rise of Deep Brain Stimulation and Its Forgotten Inventor

Lone Frank - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

The electrifying, forgotten history of Robert Heath's brain pacemaker, investigating the origins and ethics of one of today's most promising medical breakthroughs: deep brain stimulationThe technology invented by psychiatrist Robert G. Heath at Tulane University in the 1950s and '60s has been...
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Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again

Tom Jackson - Bloomsbury Sigma, 2015.
Format: Print book

The refrigerator may seem mundane nowadays, but it is one of the wonders of twentieth-century science--lifesaver, food preserver, social liberator. Part historical narrative, part scientific decoder, Chilled looks at early efforts to harness the cold at the ice pits of Persia (Iranians...
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Rx for Deer Hunting Success: Time-Tested Tactics from the Deer Doctor

Peter Fiduccia - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book

This ground-breaking book is loaded with new scientific research that will help you become a better deer hunter.This comprehensive guide provides a compilation of in-depth coverage on all methods used to hunt whitetail deer consistently and successfully. Fiduccia's real-world hunting...
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

STEVEN PINKER - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason...
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The Hunt for the Golden Mole: All Creatures Great & Small and Why They Matter

Richard Girling - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

Taking as its narrative engine the hunt for an animal that is legendarily rare, Richard Girling writes an engaging and highly informative history of humankind's interest in hunting and collecting - what prompts us to do this? what good might come of our need to catalog all the living...
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Tesla: The Life and Times of an Electric Messiah

Nigel Cawthorne - Chartwell Books
Format: Bargain - Hardcover

Despite being incredibly popular during his time, Nikola Tesla today remains largely overlooked among lists of the greatest inventors and scientists of the modern era. Thomas Edison gets all the glory for discovering the light bulb, but it was his one-time assistant and lifelong arch nemesis,...
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